Mr. Belliveau's Class

April 21, 2020
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Daily Physical Activity & Outdoor Learning Week 3

Alphabet Body: Call out a letter and work together to form that letter by using your bodies. Letters that work well are: A, X, S, C, F, J, I, L, U, V, K, Z. Don’t forget to stretch and hold your position to the count of 10. Try counting in a different language.
Testing Your Taste Buds: Close your eyes and hold your nose. Your partner will choose a few mystery items from the fridge/pantry. Once your partner gives you a little taste, describe the taste and see if you can properly identify the food item.  
Exploring Your Recycling Bin: What do you have in your recycling bin(s)? Design and create a futuristic machine using what you choose.
Hanging Sight Words: Write out common words (i.e. ‘said,’ ‘little,’ ‘that,’ etc.) on index cards. Then tape streamers/string at varying lengths from a doorway. Tape the index cards to the end of the streamers/strings. Jump up, grab the word, and yell it out while pulling the word off! Source: simpleplayideas.com/hanging-sight-words.
Spy on a Squirrel: Spot the squirrels in your yard and spend time watching what they do during their day. Where do they go? How do they move? Create a map of your yard and track their travel throughout the day.
Mystery Items in a Bag: One person puts a household item into a bag. While holding the bag, your partner should close their eyes and reach in. Can you feel the item to guess what it is?
 Nature Wands. Collect a variety of nature items (i.e. leaves, petals, cones, etc.) to create a ‘nature wand’ by securing these items to a sturdy stick with masking tape.

April 20, 2020
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Math & Literacy Activities Week 3

Hello All,

Below is a list of literacy activities that you can choose from to work on with your child through the week.  These are not mandatory activities that must be completed, but are meant to be another option to supplement their math and literacy learning at home.  

Math Activities Week 3
Look at a grocery store flyer. If you had $10.00 to spend, what two items could you buy? What change would you get back?
Fill it Up! Find different sized measuring cups and a large plastic jug. One at a time, estimate how many of each it will take to fill the jug. Test out your prediction. What do you notice?
Simon Says! Find someone to play the game “Simon Says”. Use words like forward, backward, left and right when Simon gives their instructions (e.g., take two hops backwards, take three small side steps left).
What is in the kitchen cupboard? Think of a sorting pattern for the food containers to organize them. Will you sort them by size and shape? Shape and colour? Or something else? Sort them and see if someone can figure out your sorting rule.
Baking in the kitchen (with help)! Choose a favourite family recipe (or learn a new one) to make with the help of an adult. Gather and measure out the ingredients! Follow the recipe directions! Share and enjoy!
Getting active with math! Create a BINGO card with your family and in each square put a simple exercise (e.g., jumping jacks, jog on the spot, dance around etc.). If you complete 20 minutes of physical activity, how much time will you have to spend on each activity if you complete one line in any direction? If you complete two lines? If you complete 20 random exercises? Pick a game and try it out!
 
LITERACY ACTIVITIES
Read or listen to a story and discuss what happened in the beginning, the middle, and the end.
Choose a word that has a common spelling pattern (e.g. -est, -ike, -eat, -ight, -ow). Write as many rhyming words as you can with the same spelling pattern. Choose one more and do the same thing.
Create a scavenger hunt, with verbal or written clues, for another family member to complete. (e.g. In the room where I sleep find a big blue stuffie).
Create a mini poster to remind everyone in your family to wash their hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds.
Read a book, poem, or article with your child. Have them tell you what five key words in the reading mean (e.g. feeling words like “embarrassed”, descriptive words like “unpleasant”, action words like “glaring”).
Stay- In Restaurant – have child(ren) create menus for tonight’s meal. Menus can be used that night for “customers” to choose from and children can record the orders on a note pad and then read out the order to the “cook”.
Call, Facetime, message a friend or family member and tell them a joke (or maybe a few). (E.g. Why did the orange stop? Because it ran out of juice. What goes tick, tock, bow, wow, tick, tock? A watch dog.)

April 16, 2020
by belliveauc
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Important Update for Class Meetings

Hello All, 

I just thought I would provide an update to everyone as to how to join future weekly class meetings.  You will have to find the class meetings button.  Click on it and it will be there.  Today, I think there may have been some confusion as to where to access the meeting.  Please email me if you have any questions.   

April 15, 2020
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DAILY PHYSICAL ACTIVITY/ OUTDOOR LEARNING

Fitness Stations. Create fitness stations around your space (living room, backyard, garage, driveway). Lay out the equipment you’ll need at each station. Rotate through the stations and spend 2 minutes at each. (Station Ideas: skipping, running on the spot, jumping jacks, sit ups, side-to-side jumping, sidekicks, ball toss against a wall).
A Field Trip at Home. Travel to the garage. Discover 3-5 new things you haven’t seen before. What are they? How do they work? Use your imagination.
Search and Find. Head outside… Find, draw and describe the following: 2 structures that are man-made, 2 structures that are found in nature. What types of loads (i.e. a solid or liquid that has weight) do these structures carry or hold? Compare and contrast how these items are similar and different.
Be Anything. March on the spot and when a command is given, jump into a frozen position representing an action, or statue. Leader calls out the frozen action. Telephone pole Baseball pitcher, Quarterback throwing a football, Mountain climber, Race car driver, Grow like a flower, Lightning bolt.
Outfit Combinations. Choose two drawers from your dresser. Sort the clothing items so common items are grouped together (i.e. shirts, pants, etc.). How many of each item do you have? What items do you need to make one complete outfit? How can you pair the items you have to make as many different outfits as possible? Grade 3 DPA/Outdoor Learning Date Activity Saturday, April 18 Water Exploration.
Water Exploration. Choose 1 soft surface (i.e. grass, dirt, etc.) and 1 hard surface (i.e. sidewalk, deck, etc.). Pour 1 cup of water on the soft surface and 2 cups of water on the hard surface. What happens to the water on each surface? How does each surface change in different ways? How long do you think it will take for the water to dry?
Simon Says Movement Game. One person calls out a movement for the others to follow. (i.e. spin 3 times, 5 jumping jacks, 10 knee high kicks etc.) Take turns as the leader to call out “Simon Says…”

April 13, 2020
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Math & Literacy Activities Week 2

MATH ACTIVITIES WEEK TWO

Grades 2&3: Week Two Big Idea: Computational fluency develops from a strong sense of number.
Curricular Content: developing fluency with addition and subtraction facts to 20 and application of these facts when adding and subtracting larger numbers
Curricular Competencies: develop mental math strategies and abilities to make sense of quantities, communicate mathematical thinking in many ways, represent mathematical ideas in concrete, pictorial, and symbolic forms
Core Competencies focus: Communication Teachers and Families:
The following are five problems/tasks to choose from for this week, based on the above curricular areas of focus.
Choose a number: 12, 20, 50, 100 What different ways can you make this number? Consider using words, symbols, tallies, dots, equations, etc as you think about composing the quantity (4 and 4 and 2 make 10) or using addition or subtraction.
Choose a question: 9+6, 29+6, 49+16, 349+26 How does thinking about 10 help you think about ways to add these two numbers? Draw ten frames to think about ways to make tens. For example, 8+5 can be added by decomposing 5 into 2 and 3 so you can add the 2 to the 8 to make a 10. And then add the 3 to make 13. How will you show your thinking?
Choose a question: 8+7, 9+8, 28+17, 259+18, 488+357 What different strategies can you use to add these numbers together? How can you show or record how you figured out the answer? Choose a question: 12-3, 16-7, 22-3, 91-13, 471-83 What different strategies can you use to subtract or find the difference between these numbers? How can you show or record how you figured out the answer? Numeracy Task: When might you need to add two numbers or amounts together when you are doing things at home? Draw or write a story about this.

LITERACY ACTIVITIES WEEK TWO

Using as many of these words as you can, create a poem: Spring, buds, mud, tulips, eggs, green, mild, puddles.
Design a new package for their favourite toy or food – include pictures and words.
Write instructions that can be used to tell someone how to do something like brush their teeth, directions to school from home, or a sports skill.
Story starter to finish. Could make it so one child starts and then another child adds to it and so on. Each person should write at least (5) sentences. When the last person adds to the story. The story is read out loud, each person reading the part they wrote.
Make a list of 10 things that make you happy. Choose 3 to explain why they make you happy.
Create a news story that answers all these questions: who, what, where, when, why and how.
Read a poem and illustrate a picture that describes what the poem is about.

April 7, 2020
by belliveauc
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Microsoft Teams and RAZ Kids Login Information

Hello Parents and Students,

We will begin using our classes’ Microsoft Teams site next week.  This will be a place where we can video chat, ask questions and check in with one another.  In the future, assignment may be posted on the site as well.  For now, students can practice using their usernames and passwords and can do a scavenger hunt and try to find the assignment called COVID Journal on the division 11 Teams site. 

To access your Microsoft teams online classroom, follow these instructions:

Visit:  portal.office.com

Login:

 You will be asked to enter your email address, phone number, or skype. 

You will use your new district email address. This is your school computer login number followed by @edu.burnabyschools.ca   For example,  If your computer login number was 123456 you would enter 123456@edu.burnabyschools.ca

*It might help if you copy and paste @edu.burnabyschools.ca to assist you with your login. 

Password: this is your school computer login password. Enter that, then click ‘Sign in’

After you have entered your password, you will get a screen with many apps. Click on the one named TEAMS.  That should take you directly to division 11’s Team Website.  

RAZ KIDS SITE

RAZ KIDS is an online resource where students can practice reading books at their reading level.  They can also complete quizzes to check their reading comprehension.  It is an award-winning resource that provides a library of differentiated books at 29 levels of difficulty students use to practice reading in school, at home, or on the go.

Visit: https://www.raz-kids.com/

To Login: 

You might be prompted with “Who’s your teacher.”  If so put in: belliveau0

Enter the RAZ-Kids username and password that I sent you in your personal email.  

These instructions will also be on the class website.  Please bookmark the class website and check it daily: http://sd41blogs.ca/belliveauc/

 

 

 

April 7, 2020
by belliveauc
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Literacy Activities Week 1

 

Hello All,

Below is a list of literacy activities that you can choose from to work on with your child through the week.  These are not mandatory activities that must be completed, but are meant to be another option to supplement their literacy learning at home.  

Write a letter to a neighbor or a member of your family.
Create a poster for your window with a message of hope or a thank you to essential workers.
Have a conversation about a topic of your child’s choice and aim for five back and forth exchanges. Try to avoid yes/no questions. Try instead “Tell me more about…”, “I wonder why…?”, Why do you think/feel that way?”
Have your child choose a topic of interest (sports, oceans, a country, etc.) to find and record information.   Here is a link to the Second Street’s Library’s Web Resources page that can help them with their research: https://learn.burnabyschools.ca/index.php/staff-resources/elementary-web-resources
Some words sound the same but they have different meanings. These words are called homonyms. Hoarse and horse sound the same but have different meanings.  Name 5 pairs of words that are homonyms.
Create and write down 5 questions to use in an interview with a family member or friend. Talk to, call, Facetime, or video chat with that family member or friend to conduct the interview.

IMPORTANT: Please also keep an eye out for my email tomorrow.  I will be sending out your child’s username and password to you so that they can practice logging onto Microsoft Teams this week.  We will start using Microsoft Teams next week.  I am also looking into setting up RAZ Kids accounts for your child and will provide you with ussernames and passwords for that as w

Also, please bookmark and check the class website daily for updates and new activities for students.  Here is the link: http://sd41blogs.ca/belliveauc/

Please let me know if you have any questions, comments or suggestions.  I have heard from some of you already and I have really appreciated your feedback.  

April 6, 2020
by belliveauc
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Math Resources for Week One

Mathematics & Numeracy Week One and Khan Academy Link

Hello All,

Below are a list of problems or a sort of menu that you can choose from to work on with your child through the week.  These are not mandatory problems that must be completed, but are meant to be another option to supplement their math learning at home.  

Big Idea: Number represents and describes quantity.    

Curricular Content: number concepts to 100 and 1 000

Curricular Competencies: communicate mathematical thinking in many ways, represent mathematical ideas in concrete, pictorial, and symbolic forms, connect mathematical concepts to each other and to other areas and personal interests

Core Competencies focus: Communication

Families: The following are five problems/tasks to choose from for this week, based on the above curricular areas of focus.

Choose a number: 89, 100, 500 or 1000 What different ways can you represent it? Consider using symbols, pictures, ten frames, arrays, tally marks, etc.
Choose a number: 50, 99, 125, 999 What different ways can you decompose it? Decompose means break into parts (ie. 50 can be decomposed into 25 and 25 or 10 and 20 and 20 and many other ways) How will you show your thinking?
Choose a number: 50, 85, 100 Find that quantity of items (rocks, seeds, books, blocks, toys). What different ways can you count the items? How can you show or record how you counted them?
Choose an amount: 50¢ or 100¢ or $100 or $1000 What different ways can you make this amount with bills and/or coins? What are three things that cost about this much?
Numeracy Task: Look around your home or neighbourhood. Where do you see numbers? Take photos or record the numbers you find on a piece of paper. What numbers are most common? How are numbers used?

These questions can also be found on our class website at: http://sd41blogs.ca/belliveauc/.  Please bookmark the class website and chekc in with it for daily updates.  

Another optional online resource for math and other subjects is the Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/  Khan Academy’s website aims to provide a personalized learning experience, mainly built on the videos which are hosted on YouTube. The website is meant to be used as a supplement to its videos, because it includes other features such as progress tracking, practice exercises,and teaching tools.The material can also be accessed through mobile applications.

Please let me know if you have any questions. 

Best regards,

Mr. Belliveau